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=={{anchor|Timeline of Vampire Literature}}Literature== ===Poems=== * ''Der Vampir'' (''The Vampire'') by [[Heinrich Ossenfelder]] (1748)<ref>{{cite book|last= Melton|first=J. Gordon|title=The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead|year= 2010|publisher= Visible Ink|isbn=978-1578590766|pages=xxiii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BwmGVdVxJ18C&pg=PR23}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Hallab|first=Mary|title=Vampire God: The Allure of the Undead in Western Culture|year=2009|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-1438428598|pages=74|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FFP_Z2hY7FoC&pg=PA74}}</ref> * ''[[Travels into Dalmatia]]'' by [[Alberto Fortis]] (1774), including a story of fighting against vampires<ref>Biljana Oklopčić, Ana-Marija Posavec (2013) ''Gotički tekst, kontekst i intertekst Tajne Krvavoga mosta''</ref> * [[:de:Die_Braut_von_Korinth|''Die Braut von Korinth'' (''The Bride of Corinth'')]] by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] (1797) * ''[[Thalaba the Destroyer]]'' by [[Robert Southey]] (1801) * ''The Vampyre'' by [[John Stagg (poet)|John Stagg]] (1810)<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.simplysupernatural-vampire.com/vampire-characteristics-preDracula.html|title=Pre-Dracula Vampire Characteristics Tracked Through Stories and Poems|website=simplysupernatural-vampire.com |access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120706024334/http://www.simplysupernatural-vampire.com/vampire-characteristics-preDracula.html|archive-date=6 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> * ''[[The Giaour]]'' by [[Lord Byron]] (1813) * ''[[Christabel (poem)|Christabel]]'' by [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] (1816) * ''[[La Belle Dame Sans Merci]]'' by [[John Keats]] (1820)<!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20090923212011/http://lesvampires.org/lit_older.html --><ref name="lesvampires/belledame">{{cite web |last1=Keats |first1=John |author1-link=John Keats |title=La Belle Dame Sans Merci |url=http://www.lesvampires.org/belledame.html |website=lesvampires.org |access-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923185514/http://www.lesvampires.org/belledame.html |archive-date=23 September 2009 |date=1820}}</ref> * "Vurdalak" by [[Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]] (1836) * ''[[The Vampyre (Maxwell)|The Vampyre, Compylt into Meeter]]'' by [[James Clerk Maxwell]] (1845)<ref name="lesvampires/maxwell">{{cite web |last1=Maxwell |first1=James Clerk |author1-link=James Clerk Maxwell |title=The Vampyre, Compylt into Meeter |url=http://www.lesvampires.org/maxwell.html |access-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924122215/http://www.lesvampires.org/maxwell.html |archive-date=24 September 2009 |date=1845}}</ref> * ''[[Metamorphosis of the Vampire]]'' by [[Charles Baudelaire]] (1857)<ref name="lesvampires/baudelaire">{{cite web |last1=Baudelaire |first1=Charles |author1-link=Charles Baudelaire |title=Metamorphosis of the Vampire |url=http://www.lesvampires.org/baudelaire.html |website=lesvampires.org |access-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923175945/http://www.lesvampires.org/baudelaire.html |archive-date=23 September 2009 |quote=Translated by [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] |date=1857}}</ref> * ''[[The Vampire (Strigoiul)]]'' by [[Vasile Alecsandri]] (1897)<ref>{{cite web |title=Strigoiul (Vasile Alecsandri) |url=https://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Strigoiul_(Vasile_Alecsandri) |website=ro.[[wikisource]].org |access-date=25 April 2023 |language=ro}}</ref><ref name="isfdb/3168476">{{cite web |last1=Alecsandri |first1=Vasile |author1-link=Vasile Alecsandri |title=Strigoiul |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3168476 |website=[[isfdb.org]] |access-date=25 April 2023 |date=1886}}</ref><ref name="GALE%7CA418846239">{{cite journal |last1=Tudor |first1=Lucia-Alexandra |title=Children of the night |journal=Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity |date=22 March 2015 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=60–104 |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA418846239 |access-date=25 April 2023 |language=English}}</ref> * ''[[:wikisource:The Vampire (Kipling)|The Vampire]]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]] (1897)<ref name="frameliteraryjournal/24-2/morey-nelson">{{cite journal |last1=Morey |first1=Anne M. |last2=Nelson |first2=Claudia |title=Phallus and Void in Kipling's 'The Vampire' and Its Progeny |journal=Frame Journal of Literary Studies |publisher=[[Utrecht University]] |date=2011 |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=39–55 |url=<!-- https://www.tijdschriftframe.nl/24-2-literatuur-en-erotiek/anne-morey-and-claudia-nelson-phallus-and-void-in-kiplings-the-vampire-and-its-progeny/ https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n92640SE/Documents/View%20All https://www.frameliteraryjournal.com/24-2-literatuur-en-erotiek/anne-morey-and-claudia-nelson-phallus-and-void-in-kiplings-the-vampire-and-its-progeny/ -->http://www.frameliteraryjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/04.-Anne-orey-and-Claudia-Nelson-Phallus-and-Void-in-Kiplings-The-Vampire-and-Its-Progeny-main.pdf |access-date=25 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="libraries.ua.edu/3261">{{cite web |title=The Vampire, Rudyard Kipling, circa 1900 |url=https://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/digital/collection/u0003_0000313/id/3261/ |website=Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers |publisher=[[The University of Alabama]] Libraries Special Collections |access-date=25 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Poetry, Vampires in |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Poetry%2C+Vampires+in |website=[[TheFreeDictionary.com]] |access-date=25 April 2023}}</ref><ref>[[A Fool There Was (1915 film)]]</ref><ref name="jwa/bara-theda">{{cite web |title=Theda Bara |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bara-theda |website=[[Jewish Women's Archive]] |access-date=25 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref> ** ''[[The Vampire (painting)|The Vampire]]'' by [[Philip Burne-Jones]] (1897)<ref name="elt.2012.0042">{{cite journal |last1=Mitchell<!-- https://hcommons.org/members/jmitchell/ https://myaggienation.com/am_news/professor-j-lawrence-mitchell-shares-rare-boxing-and-literature-artifacts-in-exhibit/article_0cd00844-bee1-11e4-9a0b-3b486868ebe1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200830162024/https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/english/profile/j-lawrence-mitchell/ --> |first1=J. Lawrence |title=Rudyard Kipling, The Vampire, and the Actress |journal=English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 |date=2012 |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=303–314 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/74/article/479931 |access-date=25 April 2023 |issn=1559-2715}}</ref> * ''[[:wikisource:The Vampire (Aiken)|The Vampire: 1914]]'' by [[Conrad Aiken]] (1924)<ref name="vampires/aiken">{{cite web |title=The Hauntingly Beautiful Poetry of Conrad Aiken |url=https://www.vampires.com/the-hauntingly-beautiful-poetry-of-conrad-aiken/ |website=Vampires |access-date=25 April 2023 |date=17 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="poets.org/vampire">{{cite web |title=The Vampire by Conrad Aiken - Poems |url=https://poets.org/poem/vampire |website=[[poets.org]] |publisher=[[Academy of American Poets]]}}</ref><ref name="isfdb/2087945">{{cite magazine |last1=Aiken |first1=Conrad |author1-link=Conrad Aiken |title=The Vampire: 1914 |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2087945 |access-date=25 April 2023 |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |date=9 April 1924 |via=[[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]]}}</ref><ref name="lesvampires/aiken">{{cite web |last1=Aiken |first1=Conrad |author1-link=Conrad Aiken |title=The Vampire - 1914 |url=http://www.lesvampires.org/aiken.html |website=Les Vampires |access-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925031054/http://www.lesvampires.org/aiken.html |archive-date=25 September 2009}}</ref><ref name="google/books=MjMuAAAAIAAJ">{{cite book |last1=Aiken |first1=Conrad |author1-link=Conrad Aiken |editor1-last=Burns |editor1-first=Vincent Godfrey |editor1-link=Vincent Godfrey Burns |title=The Red Harvest: A Cry for Peace |date=1930 |publisher=Macmillan |url=https://www.abaa.org/book/27971236 |access-date=25 April 2023 |language=en |chapter=The Vampire: 1914 |quote=Anti-war poetry}}</ref><ref name="Vampire-Verse-Anthology">{{cite book |last1=Aiken |first1=Conrad |author1-link=Conrad Aiken |chapter=The Vampire: 1914 |editor1-last=Moore |editor1-first=Steven |editor1-link=Steven Moore (author) |title=The Vampire in Verse: An Anthology |date=1985 |publisher=Dracula Press |isbn=978-0-9611944-1-3 |oclc=13189452 |url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13189452 |access-date=25 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref> ===Prose=== *''[[Fragment of a Novel]]'', unfinished vampire story by [[Lord Byron]] (1819) *''[[The Vampyre]]'' by [[John William Polidori]] (1819) *''[[The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo|The Black Vampyre]]'' by Uriah D'Arcy (1819) * ''[[Lord Ruthven (vampire)|Lord Ruthwen ou les vampires]]'' by [[Cyprien Bérard]] (1820) (often attributed to [[Charles Nodier]] who, as a matter of a fact, only made the theater play version of it) *''Vampirismus'' by [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]] (1821) * ''[[Wake Not the Dead]]'' by [[Ernst Raupach]] (1823), often misattributed to [[Johann Ludwig Tieck]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Crawford|first=Heide|title=The Origins of the Literary Vampire|year=2016|publisher=Rowmann & Littlefield|isbn=9781442266742|pages=87–88|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jt7dDAAAQBAJ&q=tieck+or+raupach&pg=PA87}}</ref> * ''The Virgin Vampire'' by Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon (1825) * ''[[La Morte Amoureuse]]'' (The Dead Woman in Love) by [[Théophile Gautier]] (1836) * ''[[The Family of the Vourdalak]]'' by [[Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy|Count Alexis Tolstoy]] (1843) * ''[[Varney the Vampire]] or The Feast of Blood'' by [[James Malcolm Rymer]] (or [[Thomas Peckett Prest]]) (1847) * ''Vampire'' by [[Vladimir Dal]] (1848) * ''The Pale Lady'' by [[Alexandre Dumas]] (1849) * ''The Mysterious Stranger'' by [[Anonymous work|Anonymous]] (translated from the original German, this vampire tale appeared in the English magazine ''Odds and Ends'' in 1860) * ''[[Le Chevalier Ténèbre]]'' (''Knightshade'') by [[Paul Féval]] (1860) * ''[[La Vampire]]'' (''The Vampire Countess'') by [[Paul Féval]] (1865) * ''[[La Femme Immortelle]]'' (''The Immortal Woman'') by [[Pierre Alexis de Ponson du Terrail]] (1869) * ''[[Il Vampiro. Storia Vera]]'' (''The Vampire: True Story'') by [[Franco Mistrali]] (1869) * ''[[Carmilla]]'' (1872) by [[Sheridan Le Fanu]] * ''[[La Ville Vampire]]'' (''Vampire City'') by Paul Féval (1874) * ''[[Le Capitaine Vampire]]'' (''Captain Vampire'') by [[Marie Nizet]] (1879) * ''[[After Ninety Years]]'' by [[Milovan Glišić]] (1880) * ''[[The Fate of Madame Cabanel]]'' by [[Eliza Lynn Linton]] (1880) * ''Manor'' by [[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]] (1884) * ''[[The True Story of a Vampire]]'' by [[Eric Stenbock|Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock]] (1894) * ''[[Lilith (novel)|Lilith]]'' by [[George MacDonald]] (1895) * ''[[Dracula]]'' by [[Bram Stoker]] (1897) * ''[[The Blood of the Vampire]]'' by [[Florence Marryat]] (1897) * ''The Tomb of Sarah'' by [[F. G. Loring]] (1900) * ''[[Wikisource:The House of the Vampire|The House of the Vampire]]'' by [[George Sylvester Viereck]] (1907) * ''Vampiro'' by [[Enrico Boni]] (1908) * ''[[The Lair of the White Worm]]'' by [[Bram Stoker]] (1911) * ''For the Blood is the Life'' by [[F. Marion Crawford]] (1911) * ''Wampir ("The Vampire")'' by [[Władysław Reymont]] (1911) * ''[[The Room in the Tower]]'' by [[E. F. Benson]] (1912) * "[[Dracula's Guest]]" by [[Bram Stoker]] (1914) * ''The Vampire'' by [[Jan Neruda]] (1920 – posthumous) * ''Mrs. Amworth'' by [[E. F. Benson]] (1922) * ''Bewitched'' by [[Edith Wharton]] (1927) * "The Hills of the Dead" by [[Robert E. Howard]] (1930) * ''The Dark Castle'' by Marion Brandon (1931) * ''Revelations in Black'' by [[Carl Richard Jacobi|Carl Jacobi]] (1933) * ''Vampires Overhead'' by Alan Hyder (1935) * ''Doom of the House of Duryea'' by Earl Peirce Jr. (1936) * ''[[Lady Christina]]'' by [[Mircea Eliade]] (1936) * "The Man Upstairs" by [[Ray Bradbury]] (1943) * ''The Girl with the Hungry Eyes'' by [[Fritz Leiber]] (1949) * ''[[I Am Legend (book)|I Am Legend]]'' by [[Richard Matheson]] (1954) * "The Longest Night" by [[Ray Russell]] (1960) *''Progeny of the Adder'' by [[Les Whitten]] (1965) *''Vampire's Moon'' by [[Peter Saxon]] (1970) *''The Night Stalker'' by [[Jeff Rice]] (1973) *''Pages from a Young Girl's Journal'' by [[Robert Aickman]] (1973) * ''[['Salem's Lot]]'' by [[Stephen King]] (1975) ** "[[One for the Road (short story)|One for the Road]]" by [[Stephen King]] (1977). A sequel to ''[['Salem's Lot]]'' ** "[[The Night Flier]]" by [[Stephen King]] (1988) ** "[[Popsy (short story)|Popsy]]" by [[Stephen King]] (1993) ** "[[The Little Sisters of Eluria]]" by [[Stephen King]] (1998) ** "[[The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla]]" by [[Stephen King]] (2003) ** "[[The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower]]" by [[Stephen King]] (2004) *''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' by Anne Rice (1976) *''[[The Silmarillion]]'' by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] (1977) * [[The Vampire Tapestry]] by [[Suzy McKee Charnas]] (1980) * ''[[The Hunger (Strieber novel)|The Hunger]]'' by [[Whitley Strieber]] (1981) * ''[[The Keep (Wilson novel)|The Keep]]'' by [[F. Paul Wilson]] (1981) * ''[[They Thirst]]'' by [[Robert McCammon]] (1981) * ''[[The Journal of Edwin Underhill]]'' by [[Peter Tonkin]] (1981) * ''[[Fevre Dream]]'' by [[George R. R. Martin]] (1982) * ''[[The Delicate Dependency]]'' by [[Michael Talbot (author)|Michael Talbot]] (1982) * ''[[The Dragon Waiting]]'' by [[John M. Ford]] (1983) * ''[[The Light at the End]]'' by [[John Skipp]] and [[Craig Spector]] (1986) * ''[[Those Who Hunt the Night]]'' (UK title: ''Immortal Blood'') by [[Barbara Hambly]] (1988) * ''[[The Stress of Her Regard]]'' by [[Tim Powers]] (1989) * ''[[Vampire$]]'' by [[John Steakley]] (1990) * ''[[The Gilda Stories]]'' by [[Jewelle Gomez]] (1991) * ''[[The Silver Kiss]]'' by [[Annette Curtis Klause]] (1991) * ''Vampire of the Mists'' by [[Christie Golden]] (1991) * ''Knight of the Black Rose'' by [[James Lowder]] (1991) *''Children of the Night'' by [[Dan Simmons]] (1992) * ''[[Lost Souls (Poppy Z. Brite novel)|Lost Souls]]'' by [[Poppy Z. Brite]] (1992) *''Agyar'' by [[Steven Brust]] (1993) * The books ''I, Strahd, Memories of the Vampire'' (1993) and ''I, Strahd, the War with Azalin'' by [[P. N. Elrod]] tells the tale of the vampire lord [[Strahd von Zarovich]], who occupies the castle [[Ravenloft]] * ''Travelling with the Dead'' by [[Barbara Hambly]] (1995). A sequel to ''Immortal Blood'' * ''[[Dracula the Undead (book)|Dracula the Undead]]'' by [[Freda Warrington]] (1997) (commissioned by Penguin books as a sequel to Bram Stoker's ''Dracula'' for the centenary of the latter's first publication) * ''[[Carpe Jugulum]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett]] (1998) * ''[[Sunshine (book)|Sunshine]]'' by [[Robin McKinley]] (2003) * ''[[Let the Right One In (novel)|Let the Right One In]]'' (''Låt Den Rätte Komma In'' in the original Swedish) by [[John Ajvide Lindqvist]] (2004). Translated into English in 2007 * ''[[The Historian]]'' by [[Elizabeth Kostova]] (2005) * ''[[Fledgling (Butler novel)|Fledgling]]'' by [[Octavia Butler]] (2005) * ''Renfield: Slave of Dracula'' by [[Barbara Hambly]] (2006) * "Morrigan's Cross", "Dance of the Gods" and "Valley of Silence" (The Circle Trilogy) by [[Nora Roberts]] (2006) * ''Empire V'' (the original Russian title ''Ампир В'' is an acronym of the word "vampire") by [[Victor Pelevin]] (2006) *''[[Fangland]]'' by John Marks (2007) *''Blood Oath'' by [[Christopher Farnsworth]] (2010).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/37567/blood-oath-a-political-thriller-novel-with-vampires|title=Sylvester Stallone Tracking Creatures in the Arctic Circle in Hunter - Dread Central|website=www.dreadcentral.com|date=18 September 2012 |access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014005550/http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/37567/blood-oath-a-political-thriller-novel-with-vampires|archive-date=14 October 2012}}</ref> * ''Modern Marvels – Viktoriana'' by [[Wayne Reinagel]] (2011) * ''Batman Apollo'' (original Russian title ''Бэтман Аполло'') by [[Victor Pelevin]] (2013) *''[[NOS4A2]]'' by [[Joe Hill (writer)|Joe Hill]] (2013) * ''[[Doctor Sleep (novel)|Doctor Sleep]]'' by [[Stephen King]] (2013). A sequel to King's novel ''[[The Shining (novel)|The Shining]]'' (1977) * ''[[With the People from the Bridge]]'' by [[Dimitris Lyacos]] (2014) * ''[[The Vampyre of Gotham]]'' by [[Lev Raphael]] (2014) * ''Vlad, the last confession'' by [[Chris Humphreys]] *''The Orange Spong and Storytelling at the Vamp-Art Café'' by [[St. Sukie de la Croix]] (2020) *''Silver Under Nightfall'' by [[Rin Chupeco]] (2022) *''Woman, Eating'' by [[Claire Kohda]] (2022) *''[[Vampires of El Norte]]'' by [[Isabel Cañas]] (2023) *''Hungerstone'' by Kat Dunn (2025)
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